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Intelligence
This Week’s “Under the Radar” Global News
Folks, I remember when System of a Down released, “B.Y.OB.” I remember driving along the Pacific Coast Highway, tanned from a day at the beach and Continue Reading
Harvard, Chelsea Manning, and the Crisis of Misinformation
By Lana Duffy If there is one thing of which we can be sure, it is that Chelsea Manning is out of prison and attempting to start making the Continue Reading
Terrorism Rubbernecking: When Soldiers Make Up “Terrorist Threats”
Editor's Note: We first published this article about "fake terrorism" last year. Why are we posting it again? Because it still needs to be Continue Reading
“Can You Hear Me Now?” Five Words, 100K Retweets For @Snowden On Twitter
I recently listened to a TedTalk about taking back the security of the internet in which the interviewer described his guest, Edward Continue Reading
Jihadis, Poetry, and the Ongoing Bromance of ISIL: Are We Sending The Right Message?
Poetry exists for three types of people: romantics, pacifists, and . . . jihadis? According to a New Yorker article hot off the press ad well as Continue Reading
OPM Database: Millions of Security Clearances Compromised
If you ever wanted to find out who our spies are, or who was undercover, or if someone had a bit more government access than they claimed, how would Continue Reading
Is America Unknowingly Training Iranian Fighter Pilots?
Is America Unknowingly Training Iranian Fighter Pilots? by Kerry Patton There is nothing new about the United States training Iraqi pilots and Continue Reading
Torture Report: Are Unacknowledged Special Access Programs Next?
Since the world now knows some of the tradecraft used during enhanced interrogations due to the recently released Senate Intelligence Committee’s CIA Continue Reading
U.S./Afghan Relations: Understanding the Two-Level Game
President Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan’s embattled head of state, recently revealed a laundry list of political demands he intends to put forth as Continue Reading
Much Ado About Intel… Again
Editor's Note: The reactions to the latest allegations of US spying against major European nations, even if they are 100% true (and I hope they are, Continue Reading
Snow Job: Edward Snowden is Still a Traitor
In June of 2013 Edward Snowden, employee of Booze Allen Hamilton and worker for the NSA, departed his duty station in Hawaii to go to China where he Continue Reading